{"id":853492,"date":"2026-08-10T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853492\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:24:10","slug":"arizona-diamondbacks-welcome-michael-soroka-zack-littell-to-pitching-staff-cut-former-closer-paul-sewald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853492\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks welcome Michael Soroka, Zack Littell to pitching staff, cut former closer Paul Sewald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The Arizona Diamondbacks added some reinforcements to their pitching staff on Monday with Michael Soroka returning from the injured list and Zack Littell agreeing to a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To make room for the two pitchers, the D-backs designated veteran right-hander Paul Sewald for assignment and sent Kade Strowd to Triple-A Reno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Soroka returns after missing nearly two months with left hip discomfort. The 29-year-old was one of team\u2019s most effective pitchers before the injury with an 8-3 record and 3.07 ERA. He\u2019ll start on Monday against the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Littell had 7-8 record and 4.97 ERA with the Washington Nationals over 23 appearances, including 14 starts, this season before getting released last week. Arizona is expected to use him as a reliever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 36-year-old Sewald has been the D-backs\u2019 closer for much of the season, but struggled over his past seven outings, giving up 11 earned runs over 4 2\/3 innings while blowing two saves. For the season, he has a 6.23 ERA and 24 saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">David Brandt, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The Arizona Diamondbacks added some reinforcements to their pitching staff on Monday with Michael Soroka&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-853492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}